What's up guys, I'm running into an unusual issue here and could really use some guidance. I tried searching around, and the only solution I KNOW will work is to start from scratch, using odin to go back to stock, re-rooting, and then slowly trying to work my way back to where I was before the FUBAR.
So, I was recently using LiquidSmooth 2.9 and went to make the leap to 3.0. Flashed everything, got confirmation that it went through ok, and then I just got stuck at the Samsung Galaxy s4 screen, nothing happens after that. So, I went to restore from the backup that I took earlier and I got a failure to restore.
Not to worry, I figured, I'll just reinstall from the zips for 2.9 that I still had on my SD card. Well, I do that and everything seems to work fine with the flash, but now I'm STILL stuck at the Samsung Galaxy S4 boot screen and STILL, nothing happens after that.
Any suggestions on what to do here? Flash a new kernel? Am I stuck going the long route and having to Odin everything back to stock and then re-root, etc?.
samstheman42 said:
What's up guys, I'm running into an unusual issue here and could really use some guidance. I tried searching around, and the only solution I KNOW will work is to start from scratch, using odin to go back to stock, re-rooting, and then slowly trying to work my way back to where I was before the FUBAR.
So, I was recently using LiquidSmooth 2.9 and went to make the leap to 3.0. Flashed everything, got confirmation that it went through ok, and then I just got stuck at the Samsung Galaxy s4 screen, nothing happens after that. So, I went to restore from the backup that I took earlier and I got a failure to restore.
Not to worry, I figured, I'll just reinstall from the zips for 2.9 that I still had on my SD card. Well, I do that and everything seems to work fine with the flash, but now I'm STILL stuck at the Samsung Galaxy S4 boot screen and STILL, nothing happens after that.
Any suggestions on what to do here? Flash a new kernel? Am I stuck going the long route and having to Odin everything back to stock and then re-root, etc?.
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Id download the latest liquid file again just in case that file was corrupt somehow.
That's usually been the problem lately from what I've been seeing. You really shouldn't have to Odin.
Also the kernel shouldn't matter but I always flash kts latest kernel with liquid but others don't and have no issues.
Grab that file again
Do a couple wipes in recovery
Flash away
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Also what recovery are you using?
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Mistertac said:
Id download the latest liquid file again just in case that file was corrupt somehow.
That's usually been the problem lately from what I've been seeing. You really shouldn't have to Odin.
Also the kernel shouldn't matter but I always flash kts latest kernel with liquid but others don't and have no issues.
Grab that file again
Do a couple wipes in recovery
Flash away
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Also what recovery are you using?
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Using TWRP 2.5.02
samstheman42 said:
Using TWRP 2.5.02
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Well I've seen others either upgrading their twrp or going with some version of CWM but that's obviously up to you. I'd try to download the latest liquid, which is a unified build, and try it again first..
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Just a simple question reallly but the answer may not be because it really dont make sense to me.
Why wont the stock rom for electrify boot up on my phone? it just sits there on the red moto logo and kills the battery.
I have 4 of these devices. 2 unlocked and 2 locked. I have flashed many roms. Like many! I have not had problem flashing these custom roms
but i have tried to flash on an unlocked bootloader a couple of the diferent deodexed versions via both recovery and fastboot and they dont boot.
I have redownloaded all of the files several times. Wiped this phone with every option i can find so far. Tried different recoveries on the phone. I feel like i have tried all i have in my knockledge base but this seems just odd to me. Could be im trying to hard and need to just walk away but i really wont to get this to take. I DONT want to sbf back and lock the bootloader. I can flash th3bills cm10 and it works great. Wipe the phone and flash either of these 1FF-sunfire-user-2%2e3%2e5-4%2e5%2e1A_SUN_USC_19%2e0-19-release-keys-signed-USC-US.zip
1FF-sunfire-user-2.3.5-4.5.1A_SUN_USC_19.0-19-release-keys-signed-USC-US.zip
and it just hangs.
So heres another question....can i not go back to stock gingerbread after going to jellybean?
Just kinda baffled right now and would like a second opinion here about what i must be missing or am doing wrong.
thanks in advanced for any help
After you flash did you do a factory reset in recovery before rebooting? Only thing I can think of.
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I have several times. Seriously dont think that these files can be corrupt after ruling that out by downloading them 3 times. I wait for the transfer to complete in ever way i transfer the files. Im seriously stumped.
New question.....in there a certain way to format for stock gingerbread or does it matter....re ext3 ext4 or whatever is out there.
When flashing back to stock, it's system data and cache. If after that it's not working, it's probably a bad download. The kernel would be the culprit if your flashing between android versions if I'm not mistaken. Also which stock ROM did you download? Some have had problems
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A good full wipe would rule out the formatting I think
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Alright hey guys! I rooted my phone last night and it worked and all that and I got the SuperUser app. But before I go into more detail, I have the Galaxy s3 I737 or whatever it is for at&t. Alright well today I decided that I wanted to put a custom rom on. I downloaded rom manager from the play store and then opened it up and downloaded CM 10.1 build and the GApps for it also. I clicked all of the boxes for it to make a back up and to wipe all that stuff also and then it started loading and all that. After it was done loading, the phone restarted and had the little CM guy on there and it had the CM boot logo thing I guess you would say.? But after that, it said that Setup Wizard has stopped and that the process com.google.process.gapps has stopped.
This is what I'm talking about.
Sorry for the bad quality but I had to use my ipod to take the pictures
So now what am I suppose to do? I just really hope that I didn't screw up my phone! Please help!
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Update!! I fixed it! I flashed it back to stock and I just wiped all data and all that stuff and it worked!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746665
This thread has a very good toolkit for rooting your s3. I would suggest flashing twrp recovery over clockwork. Then download the rom you want(make sure its for your phone and carrier). And thwn use twrp to flash your rom and/or google apps.
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vampir4997 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746665
This thread has a very good toolkit for rooting your s3. I would suggest flashing twrp recovery over clockwork. Then download the rom you want(make sure its for your phone and carrier). And thwn use twrp to flash your rom and/or google apps.
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So I basically just have to like re-root my phone again?
Also,did you flash google apps with the rom? Cm does not normally have google apps included they are a separate zip
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alextric96 said:
So I basically just have to like re-root my phone again?
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I think you can just flash twrp recovery with the tool. I only used it once on my friends phone but i believe it has that option. As long as your phone can get to recovery or download mode its not "done". Thats what i would do in this case. Flash twrp recovery with the tool then download a rom to your pc. Transfer to your phone while your in recovery then wipe and flash(just not internal or external sd like my freind did lol). If cm wont flash try a samsung based rom first so you can make a backup before your flash anything else.
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Just saw the update,glad you got it taken care of:beer::beer::beer:
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Credits: Our thanks to Samsung-Updates.com for posting MI3/MI5.
Until I have time to clean this up I figured I would post this now and we'll update it later.
It's more important to make sure people have this while testing new things.
Samsung-Updates.com has posted MI3 here:
http://samsung-updates.com/details/14398/Galaxy_Note_3_Sprint/SM-N900P/SPR/N900PVPUBMI3.html
MI5 Link:
http://samsung-updates.com/details/14398/Galaxy_Note_3_Sprint/SM-N900P/SPR/N900PVPUBMI5.html
As usual we're putting it up on Rwilco's repository. I am not doing anything with them though for a few reasons.
1) At the moment neither I or rwilco12 have a device to test with.
2) Given the issues with Knox I am leary in doing anything without addressing #1.
Link to Stock ROMs:
http://www.rwilco12.com/downloads.php?dir=Files/Devices/Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (SM-N900P)/Stock ROMs/
Download, flash in Odin/Heimdall. This current version will wipe your data.
TESTED AND WORKING - Great Work bud!
Any other DL links? Its not downloading anything.. On either link. Thanks
EDIT: Might be on my end I think it is working now. I already did something and messed it up. Very easy fix but I cant believe the n00b mistake I did lol. Oh well
Edit 2: Last one lol but link did work and was able to restore. Thanks!
problem
For some reason im stuck at the sprint boot screen after using this any ideas?
ok its fine just takes longer to fully restart than gn2 did
humdrum2009 said:
For some reason im stuck at the sprint boot screen after using this any ideas?
ok its fine just takes longer to fully restart than gn2 did
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Yellow Sprint screen? I'm stuck at that one as well... How long did you have to wait?
Have you guys tried wiping data in stock recovery after the full Odin restore?
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Have you guys tried wiping data in stock recovery after the full Odin restore?
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I don't think this is Kies version so it should wipe.
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I'll have a how to video up as soon as it's all said and done. I got my Note 3 two days ago!
Couple questions
I am roped with TWRP but want to reinstall the stock ROM again but keep my recovery and hopefully root.
Will this allow that? I'd so how do I flash it?
Also saw this was MI3 if I do flash this can I update to MI5 again after?
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Yellow Sprint screen? I'm stuck at that one as well... How long did you have to wait?
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Have you guys tried wiping data in stock recovery after the full Odin restore?
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Mine was stuck on the yellow sprint screen. I went in the stock recovery and wiped data, and after that it loaded up perfect. So if you are stuck on the sprint screen, try that and it might help you.
Here is a Direct link hosted on my server nice and fast
http://storagecow.eu/index.php?dir=Xda/Galaxy+Note+3/Sprint/Stock+ODIN/
does anyone know if your rooted and run this m13 will it allow you to update to m15 afterwards
xoreactionzox said:
does anyone know if your rooted and run this m13 will it allow you to update to m15 afterwards
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Exactly my question hopefully someone can chime in.
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Exactly my question hopefully someone can chime in.
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ok i went ahead an tryed to restore to stock with this because some how my sprint apps got removed when i was messing with root
anyways it worked i ran it in odin as pda with only auto reboot and f reset time check which worked perfectly besides it was a upgrade an not a restore like i thought so my sprint apps are still gone
although it did let me update to m15 with out getting a your device is modified error
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ok i went ahead an tryed to restore to stock with this because some how my sprint apps got removed when i was messing with root
anyways it worked i ran it in odin as pda with only auto reboot and f reset time check which worked perfectly besides it was a upgrade an not a restore like i thought so my sprint apps are still gone
although it did let me update to m15 with out getting a your device is modified error
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How did you get it to upgrade to m15?
Tar works great. Checked phone version about 3 hrs later and it is m15 for those wondering.
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bigmase23 said:
How did you get it to upgrade to m15?
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I didnt do anything. i just restored with this Tar and evidently it is already m15 as i didnt press any update buttons.
bigmase23 said:
How did you get it to upgrade to m15?
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After using the tar it takes a minute to boot up once it did I went thru the setup like a new phone the first time it didn't do it booted from where it left off but sense I factory reset the second time it was like a new start up
Anyways I just connected my wifi and skipped everything else went to system update clicked to check for updates an it was already downloading the 19mb m15 update
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i tried flashing the rooted MI5 from freeza and im stuck at the sprint screen. would using this file along with ODIN finally make my phone start working again?
I would try to wipe an flash the rooted rom again then if nothing put ur phone in download mode an flash this tar in Odin an it will restore u to stock like new
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xoreactionzox said:
I would try to wipe an flash the rooted rom again then if nothing put ur phone in download mode an flash this tar in Odin an it will restore u to stock like new
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i redownloaded the rom twice and have had the same result. I am using TWRP. i think ill use odin, update the ROM though OTA and reroot and install TWRP again. don't know why my phone is being dumb and not booting the ROM, just bought this beast and i wanna play around with it
So I was using the Minin3 Maximus 5.6 rom for quite a while now. But I was wanting to try out some aosp roms so I made a backup and installed Carbon rom nightly build. Used it for a few days but I have actually got really adjusted to touchwiz. Thus I wiped everything, installed the backup, now my internal storage is just not responding. Everything works just fine. However I can not download any images, save videos from youtube, basically anything that will save to internal storage. I have already tried going to twrp and rewiping everything, tried fixing permissions, everything I can think of. This happened once before and I had to completely wiped the whole phone and external sd card to get it to work. Really trying not to do that again. Any help is much appreciated.
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So I was using the Minin3 Maximus 5.6 rom for quite a while now. But I was wanting to try out some aosp roms so I made a backup and installed Carbon rom nightly build. Used it for a few days but I have actually got really adjusted to touchwiz. Thus I wiped everything, installed the backup, now my internal storage is just not responding. Everything works just fine. However I can not download any images, save videos from youtube, basically anything that will save to internal storage. I have already tried going to twrp and rewiping everything, tried fixing permissions, everything I can think of. This happened once before and I had to completely wiped the whole phone and external sd card to get it to work. Really trying not to do that again. Any help is much appreciated.
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I had a similar problem in mj4, just reflashed mj4 tar, reroot and recovery and good to go.
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tonyevo52 said:
I had a similar problem in mj4, just reflashed mj4 tar, reroot and recovery and good to go.
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So if i do this, then flash my backup, it should be good to go?
Should, by flashing the mj4 tar, it should clean up the phone, after you install the mj4, go back into dl mode, flash the cf root, the flash recovery and should take care of you.. Pretty quick process
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So if i do this, then flash my backup, it should be good to go?
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At the same time, when you go back stock, you might just want to go to KK, MJ is making a mini rom for it as well.
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Yeah I was thinking about doing that anyway, but I have to update my bootloader. That I have never done. All of this odin stuff is new to me, I've had tons of nexus devices and htc's so this is all new to me lol.
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Yeah I was thinking about doing that anyway, but I have to update my bootloader. That I have never done. All of this odin stuff is new to me, I've had tons of nexus devices and htc's so this is all new to me lol.
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I hear ya, I was always an HTC guy until this, different learning curve but same concept, honestly though, Samsung is much easier.. Just look through the note 3 forum, read read read and then if you can't figure out or understand, then ask, most people will offer up help pretty quick..
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If you want to go KK, you can go completely stock and then take the ota update our go stock and follow the link here.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2630514
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I was actually just reading the steps in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2658315
Guess this is the same results, just with a different process
Yep, most people don't use mobile Odin though but it does work
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Well thank you for all the help, I was hoping for a easier fix than doing all of the odin stuff again but if it is the only way, oh well lol.
DjGeraldo said:
Well thank you for all the help, I was hoping for a easier fix than doing all of the odin stuff again but if it is the only way, oh well lol.
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Odin is as painless as it gets. Everything is automated.
You'll love it.
The One-click packages are even easier, some would aver.
Lol®
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DjGeraldo said:
So I was using the Minin3 Maximus 5.6 rom for quite a while now. But I was wanting to try out some aosp roms so I made a backup and installed Carbon rom nightly build. Used it for a few days but I have actually got really adjusted to touchwiz. Thus I wiped everything, installed the backup, now my internal storage is just not responding. Everything works just fine. However I can not download any images, save videos from youtube, basically anything that will save to internal storage. I have already tried going to twrp and rewiping everything, tried fixing permissions, everything I can think of. This happened once before and I had to completely wiped the whole phone and external sd card to get it to work. Really trying not to do that again. Any help is much appreciated.
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I had the same issue with my g4 after the kitkat update.One of the g4 member which i can't find the post now,offered a fix till samsung come through with there fixes.I compared the platform.xml file from g4 to note 3. And they're the same. download attach file and flash.
This file will fix the sdcard issues.
I tried updating my rom and my phone will not boot. I cannot get past the samsung splash screen showing me the unlock icon. I have tried installing a different recovery, wiping everything, restoring from a backup from my SD card... no luck. I have been reading on here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30386309 and it kind of sounds like my issue. sometimes when I try wiping and installing a rom, the phone reboots when it has to write data, eg. installing gapps. no matter the gapps package im installing, kit kat or jellybean, the phone will reboot in the middle of the install. it is almost like the R/W is now corrupt. Anyone have any idea?
We need more info than that etc build you are on, and what build you were trying to update to.
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same problem !!PLEASE HELP!!
I have the same problem. I upgraded my S4 to kikat a week ago using this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2726868 worked fine. then i lost my phone at the park after about a couple hours trying to call it and find it a kid answered the phone. he wouldn't help me get it back and said he was gonna keep it and wipe it. i filed a police report and a few days later they got my phon back. but now its stuck in a boot loop on the unlock custom splash screen. the kid that took had my phone was only 8 years old. is there anything i can do to get my phone working again?
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I have the same problem. I upgraded my S4 to kikat a week ago using this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2726868 worked fine. then i lost my phone at the park after about a couple hours trying to call it and find it a kid answered the phone. he wouldn't help me get it back and said he was gonna keep it and wipe it. i filed a police report and a few days later they got my phon back. but now its stuck in a boot loop on the unlock custom splash screen. the kid that took had my phone was only 8 years old. is there anything i can do to get my phone working again?
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Your best bet is to just Odin the NC5 stock firmware back on there then. You can try the no wipe first.
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Here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2735172
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thanks
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Your best bet is to just Odin the NC5 stock firmware back on there then. You can try the no wipe first.
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Thank you so much my phone works again. By any chance do you know if there is a way i can get rooted again if not that's OK i am happy my phone works
Blaymon said:
Thank you so much my phone works again. By any chance do you know if there is a way i can get rooted again if not that's OK i am happy my phone works
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Well there are some partial downgrade methods on here which require a few files and Odin again. I haven't done it myself and I've seen some have no issues at all with it and some have had nothing but issues.
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ugh. im having the same issue. Installed NC5 today from a clean install on my MK7 phone that was running NC2.
It installed and booted up fine. I installed some apps and rebooted. Now stuck on the Samsung logo with blinking blue led light. Can't get into recovery.